Sentences with phrase «film criticism so»

But this doesn't read like film criticism so much as an account of whatever mood you were in when you last saw it.

Not exact matches

My critique of Disney is not so much concerned with the content of its films and other media, though the content is certainly open to criticism.

Anyone familiar with the more intellectual forms of pop criticism (whether of music or film) will recognize it as a parody of the Rolling Stone critic — a parody so good that, for a moment, one is almost convinced the piece is the real thing:

Who else films every practice and then sits through it all over again, so that if a player is fool enough to question a single one of her criticisms, Pat takes her right to the videotape in her office and stops the dang thing so often to prove she's right that it takes an hour to cover the first 10 minutes?

This is a film of Margaret Thatcher's life, not a treatment of Thatcherite Britain, so the obvious criticism that it shows her troubles but not those of people who struggled under her government is misplaced.

If so - then that's something to discuss, as it provides a direct comparison / contrast to the criticisms of the film.

On the other hand, the pause between the two films» release would have given Tarantino ample time to address some of the criticisms that were made of Volume 1 - its episodic story, lack of three - dimensional characters, needless editing gimmicks and so on.

Some films so perfectly capture the voice of a generation that even the mention of remaking it brings criticisms by loyal fans.

Ford's moving debut A Single Man received similar criticisms from its few detractors, so it sounds like we should expect a similar response to his latest film, although it looks and sounds like a completely different movie.

So I found that «film criticism is the analysis and evaluation of films, individually and collectively,» according to answers.com.

So to that end, Channel Awesome isn't some horrible new degradation of film criticism — it's the continuation of a long tradition.

One of the criticisms of the second and third films was that everyone so busy saving Katniss, it took away from what made her so cool in the original Hunger Games.

I'm glad to be living in such a fantastic age of film criticism where there exist so many personalities and outlets of getting ideas across.

So one can disagree with the criticism leveled by folks like me, but one can't claim that the film doesn't deserve hard scrutiny on factual grounds.

Since the writing is so smart and the performances — Hader and Wilson as well as Wiig — so likable, it dodges the obvious criticism that it subscribes to the film industry standard that a gay character must always be unhappy.

In the whole history of film criticism and analysis there almost certainly hasn't been a film so heavily written about in the vein of how much better it could have been had the studio left it in its author's hands.

Roger was all about the democratization of film and film criticism, so we are especially proud of our Audience Choice Prize nomination, because it's you who picks the winner.

The kind of faulty reasoning that Stanley Fish writes about so incisively in the New York Times («So's Your Old Man») derails meaningful discussions in politics and film criticism all the time, and it's so transparently bogus that I wonder how people keep getting away with iso incisively in the New York Times («So's Your Old Man») derails meaningful discussions in politics and film criticism all the time, and it's so transparently bogus that I wonder how people keep getting away with iSo's Your Old Man») derails meaningful discussions in politics and film criticism all the time, and it's so transparently bogus that I wonder how people keep getting away with iso transparently bogus that I wonder how people keep getting away with it.

The Bechdel test has been gathering momentum in the last five years or so, being regularly referred to in film criticism, and even becoming an informal part of Sweden's ratings board, so citizens can determine a movie's bias before going to see it.

There's a compliment embedded in the criticism that Anderson has gotten so good over the course of just four films, he's become a cliché.

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So far, we're yet to hear any major criticism from the cast (unsurprisingly, given that they remain under contract), but in an interview with Empire (via CBM), Superman actor Henry Cavill has weighed in on one of the film's biggest — and most hilarious — complaints: Superman's CGI shave.

It's also true that analysis of visual style is woefully rare in film culture, so the fact that they focus on it at the expense of plot - and - theme analysis has value in and of itself by helping to turn the conversation toward unexamined possibilities in film criticism.

So how do you review what is, in essence, a piece of film criticism?

The danger is that the film's political impetus will escape notice: so far the media have treated Hoop Dreams to a pep rally of praise as a human drama, not as criticism of a dubious sports apparatus.

It didn't affect the Oscar nominations, since voting closed prior to its publication — but it is a potent piece of writing that went beyond criticism, calling into judgment the voting bodies that have heaped so much praise on the film already.

It wasn't just a not - so - clever saying that would look totally rad on a t - shirt, but an indication of just how we were kicking against the establishment of film criticism — and those two reviewers were the figureheads of giving thumbs up to boring, pretentious films and thumbs down to many of the films we enjoyed.

There are many reasons to see this film — the only criticism I would have is that there was a lot left unexpressed; the lack of portrayal of the history leaves the unfamiliar viewer guessing as to the reasons why the police are so indelicate at the funeral of Kevin's father.

Unfortunately for me, film criticism does not pay the bills, so I can not sit all day plowing through every last film sent my way.

So David Chute keens over the corpse of film, and film criticism In 1985 and All That, Stephen Harvey remembers the seediest, not to mention the stupidest And Anne Thompson tracks the Motion Picture Academy's attempts to find five potential winners in a pack of losers.

But the fanboy movement and the internet did something to alter the tone of film criticism — it blew the demographic wide open so that now almost anyone can be a critic.

And so, perhaps the larger question we should be asking is what US film criticism is missing out on with its lack of a large enough Latino contingent.

So much film criticism focuses on directors that we sometimes forget what draws most people to the screen: the prospect of seeing an actor connect with a role and really live it.

So I contacted IBM because I wanted to be clear: were the personal criticisms of my ability as a journalist and a film maker coming from one man or from one of the largest corporations in the world?

Back in 2007, a giant 176 page official complaint was lodged at Ofcom, (the UK's communications regulator of broadcasts) about skeptic climate scientists seen in the British video «The Great Global Warming Swindle», and the complaint went so far as to include its criticism of Dr Soon's non-speaking contribution to the film, while noting his «big oil» funding.